Series Information
DORCHESTER COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
(Road Record)
1852-1918
C735
Series Description
Record of proceedings of the board of county commissioners
concerning roads, bridges, drainage ditches, causeways, and
landings. Documents include petitions, notices of petitions,
objections, court orders, commissioners returns, surveys and
plats, and damage awards to landowners. Other materials consist
of a title report on a lot in Cambridge; contracts to build
roads, bridges, causeways, jail, and dwelling on the almshouse
farm; and contract to keep the drawbridge in Cambridge. The
records are arranged chronologically by filing date. Access
available in electronic form derived from the records themselves.
Other county road plats and later ones appear in (Plat Book) in
series C2141, (Subdivision Plats, DO) in series S1243, and
(County Road Plat Book) in series C2822.